Housing + [Exhibition]

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In its third biennial theme, "Housing+", the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism explores this global phenomenon through the lens of multi-scalar design. The “+” acts as a harbinger of innovative responses to the challenge of affordable housing design that confront conventional associations and commentaries.

The Housing+ exhibition is the culmination of two years of design and research inquiry involving faculty, students, and practitioners from around the globe. It includes nine new architecture and urban design models from faculty-led workshops, in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, India, Peru, and Rwanda. Each workshop collaborated with real communities and organizations to test multi-scalar solutions and prototypical models tackling issues of affordable housing. Accompanying interviews outline the challenges faced by each team in their local contexts and are complemented with aerial footage and maps showing the global condition of affordable housing settlements.

With thanks to our local partners and tech sponsors: Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, Headlight Audio Visual, Inc., Skat Consulting Ltd., SONY, Strawtec Building Solutions, and the University of Guyana.

With gratitude to Dean Hashim Sarkis and the Dean’s Office MIT School of Architecture + Planning, the Department of Architecture, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the MIT Media Lab.